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In my youth I was a globe-trotting, bohemian surrealist painter (friendly with Salvador Dali); in teenage, a theatrical costume dresser for Cliff Richard, Jimmy Jewel and Ken Dodd; a BBC Scenic Artist, Set & Costume Designer and actor in theatre and film, a stuntman and singer, zoo-keeper, art teacher, deckhand, street portraitist and many other weird and wonderful occupations during seven years of hitchhiking halfway round the world. I became a British spiritual cult hero in the Sixties, as Founder of "Gandalf'€™s Garden" mystical centre and magazine in London.
Now in my seventies I look pretty much like Gandalf (and would have liked to play him in the film).

Because of my many years of vagabondage,€” sleeping under the bridges with tramps in Paris, working as an elephant-trainer (in Tel Aviv) and Night-club singer (Acco); a rock-driller in King Solomon's mines (Timna, Israeli desert); trekking down Africa (being shot at by bandits, surviving knife attacks, hold-ups, poisoned darts and earthquakes), crossing deserts, living with the Dervishes in Turkey and Iran, living three years as a wandering monk in India, and clinging to the outside of an express train for 10 hours through the night€” the Yoga magazines call me €˜the "Indiana Jones of Yoga."€™

I have three non-fiction books under my belt and my first children's fantasy is now under publication.

In my youth I was a globe-trotting, bohemian surrealist painter (friendly with Salvador Dali); in teenage, a theatrical costume dresser for Cliff Richard, Jimmy Jewel and Ken Dodd; a BBC Scenic Artist, Set & Costume Designer and actor in theatre and film, a stuntman and singer, zoo-keeper, art teacher, deckhand, street portraitist and many other weird and wonderful occupations during seven years... More